The Harris Review. No. 1 (Poultry Season 1971) through No. 2 (Baseball Season 1971) (all published)

A complete run in two issues of the New York poetry magazine, pages printed recto only, not illustrated. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches). Original stapled illustrated paper wrappers with cover designs by George Schneeman and Gerard Malanga. Light soiling and toning, overall excellent. New York: The Poetry Project, 1971. A complete collection of the short-lived poetry magazine published at St. Mark's Church in New York City, through the facilities of the Poetry Project. According to their website, the Poetry Project began in 1966 and since then, has "expanded access to literature, education, and opportunities for sharing one's creative work in a counter-hierarchical, (truncated) radically open space and community. Premised on the vision that cultural action at the local level can inspire broader shifts in public consciousness...we do this work through a combination of live readings, performances, lectures, events, and workshops, in addition to literary and critical publications and emerging writers and curatorial fellowship programs." The Project's history can be traced back to coffeehouse poetry readings in the Lower East Side beginning as early as the late 1950s.

The Harris Review was edited by New York poet Harris Schiff and printed using the Poetry Project's mimeograph machine. Contributors to the magazine included Ron Padgett, Lewis Warsh, Rebecca Wright, Bernadette Mayer, Maureen Owen, Michael Brownstein, John Godfrey, Tom Veitch, Larry Fagin, Tom Clark, Joe Brainard, Leonard Neufeld, Anne Waldman, Dean Faulwell, Regina Beck, Ted Berrigan, Gerard Malanga, Dick Gallup, Steve Malmude, Jack Spicer, and others.

A collection of important poets from the New York City poetry scene of 1971. (Inventory #: 53289)